| Description | Max number of partitions supported by the system for
this Flash device. Default will be 1, which actually
means that partitioning is not supported. Note that
this value will be defined by system limitations, not
by the flash device itself (for eg., the system may
impose a limit of 2 partitions even though the device
may be large enough to be partitioned into 4 based on
the smallest partition unit supported).
On systems that execute code out of Flash, partitioning
is a way of creating multiple file systems in the Flash
device so that writing into or erasing of one file system
can be done while executing code residing in another file
system.
For systems executing code out of DRAM, partitioning
gives a way of sub-dividing a large Flash device for
easier management of files. |